Free Church, Crosbost is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. Church. 1 related planning application.
Free Church, Crosbost
- WRENN ID
- half-cellar-thunder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Free Church, Crosbost, HS2 9NP
- OS grid reference
- NB 387 245
- Coordinates
- 58.13238, -6.43977
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church in Crosbost is a box-type Gothic church that dates from the mid-19th century, possibly around 1843. It features a tall structure with lancet windows throughout, including the doorway opening, and its south side overlooks Loch Leurbost. The exterior is finished with modern dry-dash, and it has a gabled slate roof topped with an apex belfry above the east entrance. The original timber-astragalled glazing has been replaced with modern windows.
Inside, the church has a gallery on three sides, with a timber-panelled front supported by cast-iron columns. The upper tier of these columns supports the roof. The pulpit, along with a precentor's box, is located between two windows on the west gable and is accessed by steps that feature a decorative cast-iron balustrade and a delicately-made lamp bracket. There are also elders' box-pews.
While the perimeter wall appears modern, it includes 19th-century cast-iron brackets over the gatepiers.
Local climate
Free Church, Crosbost sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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